The 1969 single "Groovy Baby" by Microbe featured the voice of Pat Doody's then three-year-old son, Ian. The song was written by Chris Andrews and came about after Ian, brought into Radio 1 from time to time by his father (who was employed as the station's newsreader at the time), appeared on-air uttering late 1960s slang such as 'Groovy' on shows hosted by radio presenters such as
Dave Cash. Cash heavily championed the record (and was involved with the recording of the B-side "Your Turn Now" credited to the Microbe Ensemble), which resulted in the record spending seven weeks in the UK charts, with a peak of number 29. This makes Ian Doody the youngest male artist ever to get a top 40 hit in the UK charts (as seven month old Jessica Smith appeared on the Teletubbies' number one hit in 1997). ==References==